10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Review: The Sensemaker, ZOO Playground, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsAt a time when the UK is experimenting with mass facial recognition technologies in the name of counter-terrorism, The Sensema…
Review: Dead Man's Hand, The Castle Farringdon3.0starsDead Man's Hand is a jam-packed afternoon of puzzle solving around the streets of Farringdon. It's an interactive murder mystery in whic…
Review: Metamorphosis, Sweet Grassmarket, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsAssiduously constructed and impressively acted, Different Theatre's female-oriented Metamorphosis rings with a new voice and…
Review: The Doctor, Almeida Theatre5.0starsFor his final production as The Almeida's associate director, Robert Icke brings us a "very free" adaptation of doctor-writer Arthur Schnitzel's pl…
Review: Hearty, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe 3.0stars "We've been here before", Emma Frankland shouts, panting. "Can you hear me?" Protruding from her back are a pair of wings, though they a…
Review: A Womb of One's Own, Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe 3.0stars If A Womb of One's Own underwent a paternity test, the results would be conclusive: it is most definitely a distant rel…
Review: To Move in Time, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsTyrone Huggins' voice is like honey. His sentences ooze, thick and syrupy, lulling his audience into a stunned sort of stupor. Wr…
Review: What Girls Are Made Of, Assembly Main Hall, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsWhat Girls Are Made Of is so fucking cool. To the tune of a live band, Cora Bissett recounts the rollercoaster tha…
Matthew Needham has cut quite a swath through the American repertoire of late, between the Olivier Award-winning revival of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke and the U.S.-set stage adapta…
The eagerly anticipated movie musical adaptation of the Olivier-nominated smash hit Everybody's Talking About Jamie has scheduled a release date of October 23, 2020, according to Deadline. T…
Review: The Amygdala, Bread and Roses Theatre 4.0stars The theatre above The Bread and Roses pub is small. We must edge and shuffle into one of the chairs surrounding three sides of a stage.…
Review: Collapsible, Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh Fringe5.0starsWhat with the modern world wading through an epidemic of mental illness, Margaret Perry's Collapsible couldn't be timelier. High a…
Review: Mustard Doesn't Go With Girls, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe 4.0stars In the colourful world of Bow-On-Tie, boys must be boys and girls must be girls. There are hundreds of r…
Making an Edinburgh Fringe debut, there is no time, or money, for your immune system to fail you. Eve Simpson writes about the reality of taking a show to the biggest arts festival in the wo…
Review: Tales of the Turntable, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre 5.0stars ZooNation crashes into the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall for a follow up on their 2013 hit show Groo…
Review: The Female Role Model Project, Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe 2.0stars Unfortunately, The Female Role Model Project is exactly that: a project. Its billing is promising, with talk …
Review: Hatch, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsAs the character of Jess, Sarah Carton is pure dynamite. The grey pallor of her prison uniform mixes with the din beyond her door: …
Review: Blue Beneath My Skin / All the Shit I Can't Say to My Dad, Bunker Theatre 3.0stars What is it that defines us? Who is it that makes us? And why can't we be honest with these people? …
Review: Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous, Gilded 5.0stars Alfie Ordinary is up in Scotland, performing Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous for the first time at the Edinburgh Fringe and altho…
Review: Suffering From Scottishness, Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh Fringe 3.0stars Queuing in the rain and sudden early-evening chill feels like preamble for Suffering From Scottishness. The envi…
Review: Are we not drawn on toward new erA, ZOO Southside, Edinburgh Fringe 4.0stars Are we not drawn onward to new erA is a palindrome in every sense, though it reads better back to front. …
Review: Blodeuwedd Untold,4.0starsJo Blake casts her circle, flour falling from her fingertips. It is raw and powdery, with tell-tale grains marking her skin and clothes. These patterns are …
Review: Pynapple / Teleportation, The Bunker4.0starsAs I enter the dark space of The Bunker for new theatre festival This is Black, curated by director and writer Steven Kavuma (founder of t…
Review: Do Our Best, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe 4.0stars Sephie is probably the oldest girl guide you're ever likely to meet. At the tender age of 30, she has returned to the scout…
Review: Pink Lemonade, Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsMika Johnson knows how to work their audience. Bathed in a fluorescent pink glow, Johnson surrenders to the beat of their mouth.…
